From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 13:07:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F041B16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:07:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502C143D1F for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:07:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7D8561C0008E for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:07:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 512CC1C00084 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:07:38 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050213130738332.512CC1C00084@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:07:38 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1443444322.20050213140738@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <420F3BAE.40900@wanadoo.es> References: <200502112313.28082.hindrich@worldchat.com> <823196404.20050212105644@wanadoo.fr> <420DE422.3020102@wanadoo.es> <1546398643.20050212123202@wanadoo.fr> <420E0164.7090300@wanadoo.es> <27964692.20050212160046@wanadoo.fr> <420E26FD.7090005@wanadoo.es> <686780095.20050212213024@wanadoo.fr> <420F3BAE.40900@wanadoo.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:07:40 -0000 Ramiro Aceves writes: > How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes? Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit Windows 3.x, and had the same defects. That doesn't mean that Apple was "untrustworthy," only that it couldn't afford to build a new OS from scratch. Today, most operating systems are a net loss financially. You have to depend on the peripheral effects of the OS to make up for the loss of creating it. > My girlfriend has got WinXP professional (is it sopoessed to be NT > base, is not it?) and from time to time she calls to me horrified to > say that she has a new problem with her machine: viruses, spyware, > malware, things that suddenly stop working, etc. I start trembling > each time it happens. :-/ You need to change girlfriends, not operating systems. If she would stop clicking on e-mail attachments, reading HTML e-mail, visiting questionable sites, and so on, she would not have problems with viruses, spyware, or anything else. These things do not ship with the OS. > We have to live with that. No, we don't. Some of us just skip the GUI and run more stable and secure systems in consequence. Servers don't need GUIs. > Linux and FreeBSD do it perfectly, as it have the same software > collection. Good. > If the Winbugs were well designed that should not happen. Exactly the same thing was happening long before Microsoft ever existed. > For me Linux/FreeBSD works, why should I use Windows? You should use whatever works. But for most people, the things they wish to do require Windows. > Windows is not free, I have to pay money and I do not have the source > code. That's true for most of the world's software. Writing it all off because it's not free and you can't look at source is an extreme and unnecessary sacrifice in most environments. > Why should I pay for software that it is a like a "black box", > when I can use great free OSes? Because it does what you require? > I can not afford paying a license for every piece of software I use. Some licenses are really cheap. I believe the record for low cost in my case was $5 for a shareware product. > How can I use the GIMP, xcircuit, pcb without a GUI ? Well, you can just use _equivalents_, just as people suggest to me when I point out the necessity of Windows. -- Anthony